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Al-Ahram Weekly
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COP27
11/8/2022 11:29:30 PM
Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme Inger Andersen tells Mohamed El-Kazaz and Hind El-Sayyed Hani that serious action is needed to avoid climate disaster
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COP27
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Climate change
11/8/2022 9:41:41 PM
French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday urged the country's most climate-damaging industries to double their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions within the next decade, one day after his call for action at the UN climate summit in Egypt.
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COP27
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Sharm El-Sheikh
11/8/2022 8:11:14 PM
Companies pledging to get their emissions down to net zero better make sure they've got a credible plan and aren't just making false promises, UN experts said in a report Tuesday urging tough standards on emissions cutting vows.
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Business
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Economy
11/8/2022 2:59:21 PM
The World Bank Group (WBG) announced Tuesday a new multi-partner fund that will pool funding from the global community – including donor countries, the private sector and foundations – for scalable pathways to reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
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COP27
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Sharm El-Sheikh
11/8/2022 12:07:00 AM
President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi asserted that the Middle East Green Summit Initiative demonstrates how serious a large number of countries in the Arab region are on combating climate change, whether by reducing emissions and transitioning to renewable energy or by taking measures to adapt to the negative impacts of climate change.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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COP27
11/7/2022 9:55:00 AM
Africa is the continent that contributes least to the causes of climate change — it is responsible for less than four per cent of global emissions — yet it remains one of the most vulnerable regions in the world to the impacts. Its exposure is driven mainly by low levels of socioeconomic growth, poverty, and the absence of resources to mitigate the repercussions of climate change and recover from the worst of its effects.
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COP27
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Sharm El-Sheikh
11/6/2022 7:20:09 PM
The UN's COP27 climate summit kicked off Sunday in Egypt with warnings against backsliding on efforts to cut emissions and calls for rich nations to compensate poor countries after a year of extreme weather disasters.
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COP27
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Sharm El-Sheikh
11/6/2022 2:08:44 PM
The UN's COP27 climate summit kicked off Sunday in Egypt with warnings against backsliding on efforts to cut emissions and calls for rich nations to compensate poor countries after a year of extreme weather disasters.
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Business
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Economy
11/4/2022 4:52:44 PM
Developing countries can slash their emissions with relatively modest investments, but they will need greater support from the international community, the World Bank said on Thursday.
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COP27
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Climate change
10/27/2022 3:25:26 PM
The International Energy Agency said Thursday it believes global energy emissions will peak in 2025 as surging prices due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine propel investment in renewables.
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COP27
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Climate change
10/19/2022 4:43:35 PM
Global carbon dioxide emissions are expected to grow just one percent this year despite concerns that the current energy crisis could lead countries to slow down their transition to renewables, the International Energy Agency said Wednesday.
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COP27
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Climate change
10/8/2022 8:45:03 PM
Dr Mahmoud Mohieldin, the UN climate change high-level champion for Egypt, said that enhancing investments in renewables and emissions reduction projects will help achieve the net zero target.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
10/4/2022 9:13:10 PM
Cutting the emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming to as close to zero as possible must now be an international priority.
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COP27
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Focus
10/4/2022 1:41:08 PM
German energy giant RWE said Tuesday that it will phase out the burning of coal by 2030, saving 280 million metric tons of climate-changing greenhouse gas emissions.
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Opinion
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10/4/2022 12:00:00 AM
Electric vehicles have many advantages, the top of which is that they have three times less emissions released by traditional vehicles.
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COP27
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Climate change
9/29/2022 4:13:21 PM
Mahmoud Mohieldin, the UN climate change high level champion for Egypt and UN special envoy on financing 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, said that reducing methane emissions is the fastest and most effective way to reduce global warming rates and keep the goal of limiting the earth temperature rise at 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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World
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International
9/28/2022 9:23:14 PM
The Nord Stream pipeline leaks pumping huge volumes of natural gas into the Baltic Sea could emit the equivalent of one third of Denmark's total annual greenhouse gas emissions, a Danish official warned Wednesday.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/16/2022 8:11:57 PM
Yasmine Fouad, Egypt’s environment minister and envoy for the 27th UN Climate Change Conference (COP27), reiterated to the world that Africa bears the brunt of the climate change crisis despite accouting for a tiny fraction of global greenhouse emissions.
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World
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International
9/13/2022 5:40:42 PM
Humanity is "going in the wrong direction" on climate change due to its addiction to fossil fuels, the UN said Tuesday in an assessment showing that planet-warming emissions are higher than before the pandemic.
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Egypt
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Foreign Affairs
9/12/2022 10:37:13 PM
Sameh Shoukry, Egypt's foreign minister and president-designate of the UN Climate Change Conference 2022 (COP27), praised India’s updated Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) to reducing emissions, in a telephone call on Monday with India's Environment, Forest and Climate Change Minister Bhupender Yadav.
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